On Tuesday 10 April 2007 06:45, Matthew Brown wrote:
On 4/9/07, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
I'd agree with you except I don't actually see that happening.
- and that so many contributors use pseudonyms yet
believe Wikipedia editors should be known.
Not really...their reasons for wanting real names on Wikipedia don't really have relevance to WR or, in fact, any web discussion forum.
They think people should be personally responsible for what they write about other people. They believe that hiding behind pseudonyms is damaging because it removes personal responsibility and accountability.
When it's presented as a generally accepted fact, rather than a single individual's opinion, then yeah.
And yet they write some very damaging things, including stuff that is offensive and some that is libellous, about Wikipedia editors.
Except on WR (or any other web discussion forum) it's only presented as a single individual's opinion.
I feel that if the person doing that is hiding behind a pseudonym, they are a hypocrite.
As a point of fact, I don't agree with their stance, but there's nothing hypocritical about it.